Friday September 24, 2021 A process not an event Luke 1: 26-45 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to […]
URC Daily Devotion Thursday 23rd September 2021
Thursday September 23, 2021 Words and work belong together Acts 4: 1-20 While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them, much annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead. So […]
URC Daily Devotion Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Listen! Acts 8:26-34 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south[g] to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the […]
URC Daily Devotion Tuesday 21st September 2021
Tuesday 21st September 2021 I just can’t help myself Mark 2:40-45 A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling] he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, Jesus] stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately the […]
URC Daily Devotion Monday September 20, 2021
Monday September 20, 2021 Evangelism – You’re on mute Luke 1: 8 – 22 Once when he was serving as priest before God and his section was on duty, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and offer incense. Now at the […]
URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service for 19th September 2021 – The Revd. Gethin Rhys
United Reformed Church Daily Devotions ServiceSunday 19th September 2021 The Rev’d Gethin Rhys Introduction Hello, my name is Gethin Rhys, and welcome to worship from my back garden in Cardiff. This week, in the middle of the Season of Creation, is Great Big Green Week, and as I am lucky enough to have a back garden I […]
URC Daily Devotion Saturday September 18, 2021
Saturday September 18, 2021 Worship as evangelism 1 Corinthians 14: 1 – 19 Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy. For those who speak in a tongue do not speak to other people but to God; for nobody understands them, since they are speaking mysteries in the Spirit. […]
URC Daily Devotion Friday September 17, 2021
Friday September 17, 2021 Worship as pastoral care Habakkuk 3: 17 – 19 Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food;though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th September 2021
Thursday 16th September Worship through time and space St John 6: 35 – 59 Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th September 2021
Wednesday September 15th Worship: The Work of the People Ephesians 5 But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints. Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no fornicator […]